We rarely question the value of religious orders when they teach, nurse, or even make honey. The notion of the hermit is a trickier one....

The question of the compatibility of suffering in the world with the existence of an omnipotent and omniscient God is perennial. Few, if...

Right now, the Catholic Church may be regarded as the only institution in the world that explicitly and unequivocally condemns the use of...

According to the divine law of sacramentality, God employs physical things as signs of spiritual realities. In St. Gregory of Nazianzus’s...

Studies, too, can work like a sacrament, leading one to God. Simone Weil How does one transmit the truth, give others a real education...

Gregory was moved throughout his entire lifetime by that Triune “Mind and Word and Spirit” along a middle path of “action and speech” and...

St Thérèse of Lisieux in death. When my grandmother was dying from tuberculosis at the young age of 31, leaving six small children and an...

It’s seventy years this year since the publication of Elizabeth Smart’s searing prose-poem, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept....